The ex and I just returned from a trip over to my favorite discount gourmet store. The strawberries were on the edge of being gone but I snagged 8 pounds for about $9 and I've got half of them washed, trimmed, and in the freezer on a big baking sheet. In a couple of hours I'll bag those and process the next four pounds. And I found some lovely cucumbers so will make brine this afternoon and get set to make fresh Kosher dill pickles.

They had some high-end yogurt there so I've picked up a gallon of it total (it keeps) at $1 a quart (this stuff goes for $5-7 a quart at Whole Foods) and they had some lovely frozen mushroom pizzas that I can add peppers, olives, pepperoni, whatever, and make several meals each. I love this place, but you have to go when you have room to store all of the stuff you buy and be ready to process it right now. And this is why my freezer is pretty much full all of the time. Between this and processing stuff from the garden, I won't starve in a hurry if I stopped shopping tomorrow.